Terry... Regarding taking people up, or down, the bands on FT8, W4ZST published a shorthand scheme in the 2020 SEVHF book that makes some sense and might be simple to implement. I'm sure you saw it,
Hi Joel.. Regarding " (hey we both have an amazing callsign suffix!)" I think you both missed having a great call sign suffix by a little . Tom Holmes, N8ZM --Original Message-- From: VHFcontesting <
Earl is now my new best friend! Tom Holmes, N8ZM From: w5zn@w5zn.org <w5zn@w5zn.org> Sent: Monday, January 18, 2021 4:41 PM To: Tom Holmes <tholmes@woh.rr.com> Cc: VHFcontesting@contesting.com; 'VHFc
The subject says it all . Tom Holmes, N8ZM _______________________________________________ VHFcontesting mailing list VHFcontesting@contesting.com http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/vhfcont
Every contest for the last three years I've heard the same gripes from pretty much the same folks about the awful, contest-killing effect of FT-8 on contesting. It's getting a bit old and frankly has
Possibly due the presence of many EU stations on the FT8 segment Sunday afternoon? Tom Holmes, N8ZM --Original Message-- From: VHFcontesting <vhfcontesting-bounces+tholmes=woh.rr.com@contesting.com>
I wonder if the original problem posted was HF, not VHF noise? Tom Holmes, N8ZM Andy, K1RA and I have tested several generators for the K8GP rover. I was not willing to pay the big $$$ for a Honda ge
That would be cool, Terry! Willing to take a swag at the price you'd have to ask? Obviously, that might affect my thinking . Tom Holmes, N8ZM Since taking over the reins of Directive Systems from Dav
I'm thinking use the 9700 up through 1296 (although 1296 is subject to a lot of local considerations), and the new box for 2.4 and up. As Terry says, building an add-on box for amps and switching wou
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WOW! I never expected this much interest! The only fair way I know to do this is by the time stamps on the emails that I received. So Hal, WB4AEG, was first in, but only wants the 2m radio. Karl, WD9
Seems to me the rules get made based largely on what is requested by the vhf contest community, so blaming ARRL for giving us what we asked for seems kind of embarrassing. From Tom Holmes, N8ZM _____
Back some 60!years or so, I recall articles in QST where an automotive coil spring was inserted between in the mast above the rotor to absorb transient loads, which probably helped prevent slippage w
Cue the Twilight Zone theme... Tom, N8ZM Dave, sorry to hear of your strange antenna loss. I had a weird, but much less costly, antenna loss last year and haven't mentioned it to anyone because it's